sublime

The sublime setting aside, “A Stranger in Corfu” is also satisfyingly murky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Bonus: my car smelled sublime — minty and fresh — the entire way home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was another reminder of Pogacar’s sublime talent but also his panache.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

The dinner is sublime: We start with oyster bisque and follow with prime rib, boiled potatoes, and asparagus in cream.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Know you what it is when anguish, with apocalyptic NEVER, To a Pythian height dilates you, and despair sublimes to power?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The might of one fair face sublimes my love, For it hath weaned my heart from low desires.

From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The delicate paleness of her cheeks, the glance that was sublimed into the sweetest melancholy, made me tremble with unspeakable pleasure.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

Some of the color tests included the priming of boards with white lead, zinc oxide, sublimed white lead, lithopone, and other single pigment paints.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

They were not adapted to inspire her with cheerfulness, but they sublimed her sensations, and added an inexplicable fascination to sorrow.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

Collect the sublimed matter, put it again into the sand-bath, and sublime a second time; this process must be repeated five times.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

It may be destroyed by dusting the leaves attacked with sublimed sulphur.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

Nor here alone the virtue reign’d, By matter’s cumb’rous form detain’d, But thence, subliming, and refin’d, Aspir’d, and reach’d its kindred mind.

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore

She herself says"—and poor Louisa's complaint grew into pathos under the subliming force of her advocate's sympathy—"that she would be like a widow, and worse than a widow.

From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The subliming the mercury is, however, a process injurious to the health.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.

From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko

He gave fairly explicit directions for the preparation, including calcination, boiling, drying, adding sal armoniack, subliming twice.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer